4503.232
Registrar may destroy suspended or impounded license plates.

(A)
Upon the receipt of identification
license plates that have been suspended or impounded under any provision of
law, and notwithstanding any other provision of law that requires the registrar
of motor vehicles to retain the license plates, the registrar may destroy the
license plates.

(B)
If, as
authorized by division (A) of this section, the registrar destroys license
plates that have been suspended or impounded, he shall reissue or authorize the
reissuance of new license plates to the person to whom the destroyed license
plates originally were issued upon payment of a fee in the same amount as the
fee specified in section
4503.19 of the Revised Code for
replacement of a license plate that has been lost, mutilated, or destroyed and
upon payment of a fee in the same amount as specified in division (D) of
section 4503.10 of the Revised Code if
issued by a deputy registrar or in division (G) of that section if issued by
the registrar.

This division applies only if the identification license plates
that were destroyed would have been valid at the time the person applies for
the replacement license plates. License plates issued under this section shall
expire on the same date as the license plates they replace.